{"id":482,"date":"2003-04-20T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2003-04-21T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=482"},"modified":"2003-04-20T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2003-04-21T03:02:08","slug":"knoppix-cdrom-linux-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2003\/04\/20\/knoppix-cdrom-linux-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Knoppix &#8211; CDROM Linux distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent some time lately playing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoppix.org\">Knoppix<\/a>, the bootable CDROM image that fires you up into a full featured Linux setup, complete with X-windows, Open Office, Mozilla, and a raft of utilities including nmap, Nessus, airsnort&#8230;  the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Wnen you boot up, it automatically detects your hardware, including screen and networking (well, I have to type fb1024x768 at the boot prompt on my Toshiba Satellite laptop to force it to use a 1024&#215;768 framebuffer because it uses 640&#215;480 otherwise).  Once booted up, you&#8217;re logged in as the knoppix user and there on your desktop are shortcuts to your hard disk partitions &#8211; including NTFS and FAT as well as Linux partitions.  Fabulous rescue tool.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a hint for you &#8211; rather than prefixing &#8220;sudo&#8221; to everything you want to run at superuser level, just type &#8220;sudo su&#8221; in a shell to give yourself a root prompt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent some time lately playing with Knoppix, the bootable CDROM image that fires you up into a full featured Linux setup, complete with X-windows, Open Office, Mozilla, and a raft of utilities including nmap, Nessus, airsnort&#8230; the list goes on. Wnen you boot up, it automatically detects your hardware, including screen and networking (well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}